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Awl

Maybe

An estimated 0.9% of orders come back. But prices span $4.03–$17.29, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Awl is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 10% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +10 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$245K/yr349K searches / yr
90-day growth
-0.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
39%top-5 click share · 30 brands · 94 sellers

Flapen Score

Awl against its category

The dotted line is the Arts, Crafts & Sewing average. Past it, Awl is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

56Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Awl market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Awl 349K times last year and spent an estimated $245K. The top 5 brands take 53% of clicks. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 349K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -0.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $245K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
349K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-0.9%
Conversion, latest week
8.5%
Market size, estimated
$245Ka year
Peak month
January1.2× the quietest month
Top search term
awl152K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $8.26.

Listings sell for $8.26 on average, from $4.03 to $17.29. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $8.26 that is $4K to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$8.26under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.03–$17.29
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
$4K–$6K
Returns
0.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

66% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #121 within Sewing Notions & Supplies. It carries 500 reviews at 4.61 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
66%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.0%
Average rank
#121in Sewing Notions & Supplies
Average rating
4.61 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
500per listing
Listings tracked
44

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 15 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

15 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 55 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
15
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
55 months

Products

Top Awl products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take only 39% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

30 falling

Sellers

94

Top-5 brand share

53%

Top 20: 90%

Top-5 click share

39%

Top 20: 77%

Open market

42%

  • Brand 114%
  • Brand 214%
  • Brand 311%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Awl search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

7K5KPrime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×

Search terms

Top Awl search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • awl152K/yr
  • awl tool68K/yr
  • scratch awl38K/yr
  • leather awl23K/yr
  • aul11K/yr
  • awl for paper crafting4K/yr
  • awl punch6K/yr
  • punzon7K/yr
  • scratch awl tool8K/yr
  • book binding awl4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Awl

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

18%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.9%of orders come back
“Ended up being bigger than I expected”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”20% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Awl questions

Answered from the same tracked data.